A Clerk of Oxford

Today's Advent carol, which is from the fifteenth century, has an unusual subject: Mary looking forward with joyful expectation, during ...

A sad little song from c.1300 (for which this picture entitled 'Broken Vows', though entirely unmedieval, seems nonetheless appropri...

For the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, here's a medieval poem in praise of the Virgin Mary. The opening lines set the poem in aut...

Here's a morning hymn of St Ambrose, whose feast is today, as translated by the editors of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1904). And some pi...

Time to start posting some Advent hymns, I think. One of the best-known Advent hymns (and one of my favourites) is Edward Caswall's tra...

An apocalyptic scene on the Lindisfarne stone There's some interesting writing about Advent from the Anglo-Saxon period: perhaps this i...

To brighten up the beginning of December, here's some pretty windows from Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire. Dorchester-on-Thames is a tin...